Hannington, Hampshire

Historical Description

Hannington, a parish in Hants, on the Roman road from Andover, 2½ miles SSE of Kingsclere, and 4 NNWof Oakley station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post office under Basingstoke; money order and telegraph office, Kingsclere. Acreage, 2045; population, 279. There is a barrow on Cottington Hill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £260 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient, with a steeple, and was restored in 1856. There is a Methodist chapel.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient County	Hampshire
Ecclesiastical parish	Hannington All Saints
Hundred	Chutely
Poor Law union	Kingsclere

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Hannington from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hannington (All Saints))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hampshire (County Southampton) is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Hannington are available from a number of sites:

Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
Google Streetview.
National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
OpenStreetMap.
old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Hampshire newspapers online:

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Hampshire, 1530, 1575, & 1622-34 is available to view on the Heraldry page.

District	Basingstoke and Deane
County	Hampshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Postal district	RG26
Post Town	Tadley